Why schools should open or not.

[Dani]

Our government school system is officially a huge detriment to the children and our future!

Joe Gamaldi (@JoeGamaldi) Tweeted:
***Update: The School district has reached out, they have pulled back the assignment, apologized for the assignment, and will be issuing an apology to the parents.*** @WylieISD




So the school gave a less than acceptable apology and said nothing, zero, zip about removing this indoctrination teacher!

https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2020/08/20...nt-political-cartoon-police-slave-owners-kkk/
and this is what was in the comment section. . . . I guess everyone who stands up in support of our police department will now be called Karens. . . .


Jo Ann

August 21, 2020 at 3:10 pm

That is disgusting. Any teacher who knowingly was involved in this should be fired. Haven’t the police been demonized enough in the last 3 months. How can you EVER expect kids to respect the police when you have teachers who are so political and teach our kids to hate them. Shame on those involved. And shame on the pricipal of this school and the Wylie ISD officials for being too scared to do the right thing here. I have NO respect for any of you. My only respect would be for anyone in the police department who chooses to “forgive” you. You don’t deserve it

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   Foe Guckyourself
   
   August 21, 2020 at 3:48 pm
   
   Karen! I hate to hear that the FOP got their feelings hurt over a political cartoon! What will we do? We must feel sorry for those racist snowflakes. God forbid their feelings are hurt after countless unnecessary deaths at the hands and knees of their fraternal brethren. ACAB

https://www.fox4news.com/news/wylie...at-likens-police-officers-to-kkk-slave-owners

 

[dirtdiva]

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/n...see-schools-as-reopenings-continue-state-saysCOVID-19 outbreaks close nine Tennessee schools as reopenings continue, state says


NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Nine Tennessee schools are now closed to in-person learning statewide because of COVID-19 outbreaks inside their buildings, state officials said Tuesday.

In Bedford County, Shelbyville Central High School and Liberty Elementary School have now moved to virtual learning, according to the state.

In Marshall County, Cornersville High School and Marshall County High are closed.

In Maury, the state says, Baker Elementary is closed due to a COVID outbreak.

There are also schools closed in Gibson County, Henderson County, McNairy County and Lenoir City.

It comes as the state still has not found a way to be more transparent about when COVID first emerges in our schools.

"The best point of contact right now is the school district itself," Health Commissioner Lisa Piercey told reporters.

"The school district is empowered from their board attorney to share any information they want to do."

The health commissioner said her department still is not clear that it can legally disclose when those cases first emerge so that parents can keep a closer eye on their children.

But, in some communities, districts are only telling families if they have documentation that their children were within six feet of an infected person for 15 minutes or more.

Many experts say the virus can actually spread much farther in a closed classroom.

So how are other families supposed to know?

Piercey's advice was not very promising.

"If the school board and the school itself doesn't want to disclose that information, I would suppose then that the other information channels are less official - through social media and word of mouth," Piercey said.

"There would not be any other official source of that at this time. Those are exactly the avenues we are pursuing."

Recently, NewsChannel 5 Investigates asked the commissioner if the state was asking federal regulators for permission to disclose such information.

She said they were not.

But now, both she and the governor say they are having those conversations.

As to how long it might take to get answers, they said, it could still be two weeks.

 

[Mountain trapper]

It appears that schools around here are open. Coming back from the feed store yesterday I saw a school bus dropping off kids. When I drove by the school in my town there were kids playing outside. None of these kids were wearing the silly masks or "social distanceing". It all looked normal.

 

[dirtdiva]

It appears that schools around here are open. Coming back from the feed store yesterday I saw a school bus dropping off kids. When I drove by the school in my town there were kids playing outside. None of these kids were wearing the silly masks or "social distanceing". It all looked normal.

My personal opinion I think it just depends on the area Arctic. Right now certain parts of Tennessee are somewhat of a hot spot. By the number from the health dept (if they can be believed) it looks to be going down.

 

[Dani]

 

[Dani]

Trump Signs Executive Order Giving Funds To Students Without Access To In-Person Learning

Trump Signs Executive Order on Expanding Educational Opportunity Through School Choice / STATEMENT FROM THE PRESIDENT
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to ensure the education, health, safety, and well-being of America’s children, our most essential resource upon which the future of our great Nation depends, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Purpose. As part of their efforts to address the public health challenges and uncertainties posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, State and local officials shut down in-person learning for the vast majority of our more than 56 million elementary and secondary school students beginning in late February and early March of this year. Since then, however, our Nation has identified effective measures to facilitate the safe resumption of in-person learning, and the Federal Government has provided more than $13 billion to States and school districts to implement those measures.

The prolonged deprivation of in-person learning opportunities has produced undeniably dire consequences for the children of this country. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stated that school attendance is negatively correlated with a child’s risk of depression and various types of abuse. States have seen substantial declines in reports of child maltreatment while school buildings have been closed, indicating that allegations are going unreported. These reductions are driven in part by social isolation from the schoolteachers and support staff with whom students typically interact and who have an obligation to report suspected child maltreatment. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has also found that school closures have a “substantial impact on food security and physical activity for children and families.” Additionally, a recent survey of educators found student absences from school, including virtual learning, have nearly doubled during the pandemic, and as AAP has noted, chronic absenteeism is associated with alcohol and drug use, teenage pregnancy, juvenile delinquency, and suicide attempts.

School closures are especially difficult for families with children with special needs. Schools provide not only academic supports for students with special needs, but they also provide much-needed in-person therapies and services, including physical and occupational therapies. A recent survey found that 80 percent of children with special needs are not receiving the services and supports to which they are entitled and that approximately 40 percent of children with special needs are receiving no services or supports. Moreover, the survey found that virtual learning may not be fully accessible to these students, as children with special needs are twice as likely to receive little or no remote learning and to be dissatisfied with the remote learning received.

Trump Signs Executive Order Giving Funds To Students Without Access To In-Person Learning - Breaking911

 

[tmttactical]

Trump Signs Executive Order Giving Funds To Students Without Access To In-Person Learning

Trump Signs Executive Order on Expanding Educational Opportunity Through School Choice / STATEMENT FROM THE PRESIDENT
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to ensure the education, health, safety, and well-being of America’s children, our most essential resource upon which the future of our great Nation depends, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Purpose. As part of their efforts to address the public health challenges and uncertainties posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, State and local officials shut down in-person learning for the vast majority of our more than 56 million elementary and secondary school students beginning in late February and early March of this year. Since then, however, our Nation has identified effective measures to facilitate the safe resumption of in-person learning, and the Federal Government has provided more than $13 billion to States and school districts to implement those measures.

The prolonged deprivation of in-person learning opportunities has produced undeniably dire consequences for the children of this country. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stated that school attendance is negatively correlated with a child’s risk of depression and various types of abuse. States have seen substantial declines in reports of child maltreatment while school buildings have been closed, indicating that allegations are going unreported. These reductions are driven in part by social isolation from the schoolteachers and support staff with whom students typically interact and who have an obligation to report suspected child maltreatment. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has also found that school closures have a “substantial impact on food security and physical activity for children and families.” Additionally, a recent survey of educators found student absences from school, including virtual learning, have nearly doubled during the pandemic, and as AAP has noted, chronic absenteeism is associated with alcohol and drug use, teenage pregnancy, juvenile delinquency, and suicide attempts.

School closures are especially difficult for families with children with special needs. Schools provide not only academic supports for students with special needs, but they also provide much-needed in-person therapies and services, including physical and occupational therapies. A recent survey found that 80 percent of children with special needs are not receiving the services and supports to which they are entitled and that approximately 40 percent of children with special needs are receiving no services or supports. Moreover, the survey found that virtual learning may not be fully accessible to these students, as children with special needs are twice as likely to receive little or no remote learning and to be dissatisfied with the remote learning received.

Trump Signs Executive Order Giving Funds To Students Without Access To In-Person Learning - Breaking911
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Time to have the educational money follow the student. Then you will see schools open up pretty darn fast. You will also see an improvement in the quality of education, once a parent can afford to choose to have their children educated away from public school system.

 

[LexiRae]

Our school gave the option to go back or do virtual. We have been staying home bc my 5 yr old son has asthma and I’m a worrier but I had planned to send them back. Right before Christmas break, they sent a notice saying they are no longer taking anymore in person students until further notice.

 

[Jayson]

Governor Nuisance out here in Kalifornia decreed that schools should reopen by mid-February.

 

[LindaSue]

Polis said he was going to open schools in Colorado again in mid-January, but now he’s wavering because we had a positive case of the UK strain of Covid here. Parents have had enough. Most just want their kids to go back to learning in person. Interestingly enough, the teachers unions and school districts are putting the heat on Polis to get kids back in school as well. We will see who wins that battle. Online school has been a huge joke. We pulled our kids out in December to homeschool. I figure anything we do has to be better than the YouTube videos their teachers are feeding them. So many kids are going to be so far behind.

 

[Amish Heart]

Three of our grandkids live with us. The two highschoolers are dying to go back. They could go two days a week through November, and then it closed again. The elementary school granddaughter has been going in person all along. Only 8 in her class, 25 in the school, the other 30 students that were in the school are meeting in the Mennonite church down the road. Thinking the high school will open again so that they could at least go a few days a week. We are very rural, with a small population of students, so it's possible.

 

[Jayson]

I’ve talked with my teacher friends. They’re just tired of the open-close-open-close merry go round nonsense.

 

[Amish Heart]

One of our grandkids HS science teacher recorded himself over the summer teaching a whole school years worth of lessons. When they're in class, they watch the recording with him standing there. Otherwise, it's on the tablet for school at home.

 

[Jayson]

Unfortunately, I’ve seen too many kids, parents and teachers who view this Covid situation as a chance for an extended break from school or work.

 

[Dani]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...ers-return-classroom-vacationing-puerto-rico/

 

[Mountain trapper]

I want the schools open just to get the little truds off the street. In my town the schools never closed as far as I know.

 

[Jayson]

I want the schools open just to get the little truds off the street. In my town the schools never closed as far as I know.

In my neck of the woods, the schools closed completely last March. The teachers, principals and administrators all had a 5 month PAID vacation.

 

[DrHenley]

Isn't it odd that the people who want to force parents to send their children to public school are the same people who now want to keep the public schools closed and make the kids stay home??

 

[Amish Heart]

They want them to stay home and stare at a screen all day and the schools will still collect the money from the govt.. I wonder where the money goes when they are saving money on: school nurses, janitors, maintenance, sports programs, after school programs, air, and heating. Some states had parents sign paperwork stating that they would not watch what their students were being taught online. Some states have mandatory welfare checks of students at home so that they can see what's going on.

 

[lonewolf]

In my neck of the woods, the schools closed completely last March. The teachers, principals and administrators all had a 5 month PAID vacation.

teachers over here when we had the lock downs had to do online teaching instead, that means personal lessons not a class and it took twice as much work(stepdaughter and step gran daughter are both teachers so I know for a fact) a paid holiday IT IS NOT. they were doing 80 hour weeks and only paid for 40 or less.

 

[Jayson]

teachers over here when we had the lock downs had to do online teaching instead, that means personal lessons not a class and it took twice as much work(stepdaughter and step gran daughter are both teachers so I know for a fact) a paid holiday IT IS NOT. they were doing 80 hour weeks and only paid for 40 or less.

Our schools took the whole time from March until September off. Then they started modified online learning. My hippie/teacher neighbor across the street was thrilled to have so much free time to smoke pot.

 

[lonewolf]

all schools here when they were told to close had to go onto online teaching, dont know about admin but for the teachers it was double the work and more.

 

[DrHenley]

Not many teachers know how to do online classes right. My wife has been doing it for many years. At one time she was teaching a Chinese language class at the middle school at Fort Benning Army Base live and at the same time at Maxwell Air Force Base remotely. And long before COVID she was teaching private classes remotely with students at home. She still teaches the remote private classes. The classroom size has to be smaller than a normal classroom, but up to a certain limit it can be very effective if the teacher is trained correctly.

 

[Amish Heart]

The problem I saw when we lived in New Mexico (from March thru July) was that the teachers were teaching mindless leftist propaganda throughout the day, and then thrown into online teaching, where perhaps some parents (or grandparents, in my case) could hear and see the junk being spewed, could see that half the time the teacher couldn't be bothered to show up for the High School class, and could hear the teachers using a solid month in online class trying to get the students to write about their feelings over the pandemic. In that state, no academics were taught during that time. Now in another state, and the academics are better, even though we are rural and in a small district. So, happy about that, for the grandkids that live with us. It is overall more difficult for kids this age to learn solely online. They aren't wired for it. And I wouldn't want them to be wired for it. Reminds me of a factory worker doing the same task every single day, with no room for mental growth, sharing of ideas. Traditions have changed, too. Little granddaughter that lives with us attends elementary school and she still goes every day, although the class size now is down to 8. So for the holidays, there was no Christmas program, no singing, no teacher gift, no secret santa exchange. These traditions are important to the students and the community. Traditions keep us human. Not this "borg like" we're all in this together garbage.

 

[Gracieboo]

That’s just it, teachers are not trained for online lessons, it’s a totally different style. I was quite lucky because I taught Primary for 15 years before I had my daughter then switched to supply so we homeschooled during lockdown. In her school the teacher set work for the students they didn’t teach online, it would be much more difficult with the younger ones to keep their attention. A lot of the work set was relatively easy though, I had the resources so could supplement it. Most parents do not and are also trying to hold down a job at the same time. There have been no covid cases in my daughters school since she’s been back but a lot of children (bubbles) sent home in my sisters high school where she works.

 

[Amish Heart]

Common Core Curriculum in the states sets curriculum to the children with the lowest levels. Gifted students and midline students are not encouraged to learn something new with the curriculum standards we've had since Obama has been in office. The smart parents are contributing to the online school with something that the child needs to learn.

 

[David SB]

They want to keep the kids dumb and susceptible to propaganda in their late teens years. That means holding down the development of not just the bright students but even the average normal students. This is just a different type of programing style.

"give me four years to teach the children and the seeds I have sown will never be uprooted" - Lenin

The answer to great education of course (as said many times on this forum and others) is "the money follows the child". But that is NOT the goal

 

[Gracieboo]

A love of reading and a curiosity for the world around them is the goal parents should foster from day one. Limited screen time and as much time in nature as possible is also crucial in the world we live in now. If you put that child in any mediocre school setting they will likely do well. Education starts and ends at home, the same with discipline. There are great teachers and poor ones in every school, some teachers can put on performances for school examiners but the rest of the time do the bare minimum. This also applies to private schools.

 

[Jayson]

Common Core Curriculum in the states sets curriculum to the children with the lowest levels. Gifted students and midline students are not encouraged to learn something new with the curriculum standards we've had since Obama has been in office. The smart parents are contributing to the online school with something that the child needs to learn.

Some pundits call that ‘dumbing down’ the kids...

 

[Amish Heart]

Trump said he was going to change that, day one. Ha Ha.